Call for applications: Cannes International Film Festival 2017

The 70th Cannes International Film Festivals to be held from 17-28 May 2017, is now receiving film submissions for its different sections: The Cinéfondation If you you’re a student in a film school and wish to enter a short or medium-length film into the Cinéfondation: The registration deadline is 15 February 2017, at the latest. Please click here for the pre-selection conditions and 2017 entry form. Please click here for the rules and regulations. Short films in competition…

Call for applications: Cannes International Film Festival 2017

The 70th Cannes International Film Festivals to be held from 17-28 May 2017, is now receiving film submissions for its different sections:

• The Cinéfondation
  If you you’re a student in a film school and wish to enter a short or medium-length film into the Cinéfondation:
  The registration deadline is 15 February 2017, at the latest.
  Please click here for the pre-selection conditions and 2017 entry form.
  Please click here for the rules and regulations.
• Short films in competition
  The registration deadline is 1 March 2017.
  Please click here for the pre-selection conditions and 2017 entry form.
  Please click here to find out more about the rules and regulations.
• Feature films in competition, out of competition, and Un Certain Regard

Feature films to be submitted for the Official Selection must be entered by 10 March 2017.

The Cannes Film Festival Selection Committee is the exclusive body in charge of the various sections of the Official Selection. It decides in which section a film can participate.
For the pre-selection conditions and 2017 entry form, please click here.

Please click here to read the rules and regulations.

• The Short Film Corner
  The Short Film Corner, exclusively reserved for shorts, is the essential rendezvous for filmmakers, where short-film producers and directors present their films, arrange meetings and take decisive steps for their careers.

To find out more, please click here. Registration will open soon.

• The Caméra d’Or
  The Caméra d’Or is an award, rather than a specific category. However, all selected first features compete for the Caméra d’Or, awarded to the best first film presented in the Official Selection, in the Directors’ Fortnight or in the Critics’ Week (submissions for the Critics’ Week open on 12 December 2016).

Please click here to read the rules and regulations.

• The Cannes Film Market
  As part of the Cannes Film Market, sellers and producers can screen their films for a fee. In 2016, the Film Market welcomed more than 11,900 participants, as well as hosting screenings for 1,426 films. The International Village welcomed several new countries, including China, Egypt and Israel.

Registration will open soon.
For more information, please click here.

For further information about the Cannes Film Festival and the submission of films, please click here.

A number of South Mediterranean films took part in the 2016 Cannes Film Festival: Egyptian director Mohamed Diab’s Clash was the opening film of the Un Certain Regard, a section that also included Israeli directors Eran Kolirin with Beyond the Mountains and Maha Haj with Personal Affairs. Two French-Tunisian co-productions participated in Cannes: Karim Dridi’s Chouf was shown as a Special Screening, while Lofti Achour’s short La laine sur le dos was in the running for the Palme d’Or. Vatche Boulghourjian’s Tramontane (France/Lebanon) and Asaph Polonsky’s One Week and a Day (Israel) were both in the Critics’ Week, while two Israeli films also competed in the Cinéfondation. Wissam Charaf’s French-Lebanese film Heaven Sent was present in the ACID sidebar, not to mention the dozens of South Mediterranean filmmakers who participate each year in the Film Market and the Short Film Corner.